Seed Order

One more seed order taken care of....I THINK this is the end of it....I wanted to order dry beans. The plan is to harvest and dry them, to use in chilies or bean casseroles.....baked beans, yummy!

Arikara Yellow
Big Red Kidney

I've ordered both thru http://www.prseeds.ca/index.html located in Saskatchewan.

Tonite I think I'll sit down with a glass of wine in front of the woodstove, and go over my seed list. Just wanting to make sure I have all (most) of the loose ends wrapped up! Sphere: Related Content

Ordering Some More Seeds

I'm going to put an order in for a few more seeds in the next day or two:

Amish Paste Tomato - gonna try these for the first time
Sugar Beet - we have Some seed left from last year - not enuf. We also have 4 sugar beets (I think) down in the cold room from last year's harvest....we'll pop those back in the ground this spring, and hope to collect seed in the Fall of 09
Amaranth - gonna try these for the first time. I'm not sure how they will do, as apparently they don't take too kindly to frost. I'll experiment a bit tho and give it a try. It's the Grain Amaranth I'm ordering - if we get lucky and get some to seed by Fall, we can feed it to the chickens..... Sphere: Related Content

Seed Orders and a Cold Room Update

I've been working on finishing up the seed order. I wouldn't mind having extras again ( I just hate it when I plant the LAST of my seeds). So I have the major order ready....here goes

Tomato - Jetsetter - yummy big juicy meaty; Roma VF - I need to try these!
Turnip - Purple Top
Peas - Alaska - need more; Sugar Snap
Lettuce - Salad Bowl
Kale - Dwarf Green Curled
Carrot - have lots of seed, but ordering some Danvers Half Longs
Cabbage - Early Copenhagen Market
Cauliflower - Early Snowball
Broccoli - Packman
Beets - Detroit Dark Red
Beans - Bush Blue Lake
Swiss Chard - Fordhook

I have quite a few seeds leftover from last year....Good!

One of our Main Goals for this year is to try to grow twice as much animal food as we did last year...so we'll need lots of seed on hand.

checked the cold room - we have a LOT of potatoes still down there - like almost 2 -50lb feed bags full, PLUS all the seed potato I put away in the fall. So, we should have potatoes on hand to feed to the little piggies whenever they come (and yes, it's too early for me to even begin to dwell on piggy numbers right now)

The rutabagas, sugar beets and mangels that we put in the cold room in the Fall, still look fine. We're hoping they'll be ok to just plop in the ground come May. Then in the Fall 09, we'll be able to harvest seed from these ones that are on the "second time around".

Over the next few days, I will finalize the rest of the orders and get them sent off! Sphere: Related Content